End-of-Season Bonus: The Decade In Review

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Comedy, Government, News, Culture, Politics

4.4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

The twenty-tens are over, if you're not one of those pedants who insists the twenties don't start 'til 2021. This week, our panel waves goodbye to the last decade, and looks back on the new trends it brought us in tech, comedy, journalism, and popes. On location data: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/10/business/location-data-privacy-apps.html Nathan's free book: https://images.currentaffairs.org/2019/12/myaffairs-manuscript-free.pdf Your panel this week was finance editor Sparky Abraham, amusements and managing editor Lyta Gold, senior editor Brianna Rennix, and editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson. Your host is Pete Davis. This episode was edited by Dan Thorn of Pink Noise Studios in Somerville, MA.

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0:00.0	I don't want any of these things.
0:01.8	No, they're really sad and born.
0:03.6	But they are things that happened.
0:05.5	I want, like, I want happy things.
0:07.5	I don't have any happy things.
0:08.8	No, nothing good.
0:10.0	It wasn't a great decade.
0:12.9	The first thing was at it.
0:14.5	Current affairs started.
0:15.4	Is that one of it started?
0:16.3	Is that one of your things?
0:17.7	Yeah. Oh, I've got best memes of the decade list if you want to just pull off of that.
0:24.4	We're going to talk about memes on an audio podcast.
0:27.3	We'll just describe them one at a time.
0:31.3	And then the Chad points at the...
0:34.4	We should do memes, but just make him really dramatic.
0:39.3	A man holds out his hands. A butterfly arrives.
0:41.3	Physically, he asks, is this blank?
0:45.3	But it was not.
0:47.3	I'll try to describe the dramatic chipmunk one.
0:52.3	Spider-Man turns the corner. What does he see? Another Spider-Man turns the corner.
0:55.2	What does he see?
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